Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.

nothing yet. I've been waiting." "for what?" she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him.

We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.

Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.

How goodness heightens beauty!

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

In eroticism as dance: one of the partners is always charged with leading the other.