Nothing strange should befall us, but only that which has long belonged to us. We will gradually learn to realize that that which we call destiny goes forth from within people, not from without into them.

Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.

There is time only to work slowly There is no time not to love

I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read.

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.

Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.