The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.

in the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts.

Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.

The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.