Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything else. He becomes as a lover to whom abstinence is intolerable.

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.

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.