Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past.

Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.

Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.

Some things we must pass over in silence.