Leave to your opinions their own quiet undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be pressed or hurried by anything.

You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.

You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in which the physician can do nothing but wait.

Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.

Everything is gestation and then birthing.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.