Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Love provided me with a tongue and tears.

We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his fingers over our throats, one weeping and the other laughing hideously. As I took Selma's hand and put it to my lips, she came close to me and placed a kiss on my forehead, then dropped on the wooden bench. She shut her eyes and whispered softly, "Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings!

But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you?

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore.

Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.