Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

I believe that consistently we need to look for good, and not for evil, that when we look for evil we call up evil, while heaven comes closer when we acknowledge it.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of love is too demanding of the other; it takes, rather than gives. To love so completely that you lose yourself in another person is not good. You are giving a weight, not the sense of lightness and light that loving someone should give.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.