We save the world by being alive ourselves.

There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.

You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what you mean. You enjoy it.

He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.