We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.

If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.