None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.