It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

When the curtain falls no one is ready

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.