And now that I don't want to own anything any more and am free, now I suddenly own everything, now my inner riches are immeasurable.

Life is good, after all...and that's what stays with me, even now, even when I'm about to be packed off to Poland.

To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task

I'm afraid I did not pray hard enough last night.

I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned.

We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.