A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.

with courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!

Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.