There is a miracle in every new beginning

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.

So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?

At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.