I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

Not caring for their lives' is it? Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time.

We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.

But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.