And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.

One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.

Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover. And then, in the midst of near despair, something has happened beneath the surface. A bright little flashing fish of hope has flicked silver fins and the water is bright and suddenly I am returned to a state of love again - till next time.

To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.