Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

The spirit of man is nomad, his blood bedouin, and love is the aboriginal tracker on the faded desert spoor of his lost self; and so I came to live my life not by conscious plan or prearranged design but as someone following the flight of a bird.

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

On the night that the Second World war was declared, there were crowds in the street. It was a summer's night and there was a blackout. On every side you heard people crying: 'Look at the moon!' The moon had been there every minute of their lives and they'd never seen it.

Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.