Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

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.

The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Words can not express the joy of new life.