Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.

A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.

The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing.

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.