Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.