There's no healthy life possible without some sensual feeling between the husband and wife, but there's nothing in the world more awful than married life when it's the only common ground.

You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.