The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night.

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.

I saw Sophia Loren - the Italian woman with those wonderful cheekbones - in a movie the other day. She must have had 24 face-lifts, and she looks like an alien, as if she weren't from this world at all. Her Italian wrinkles would have been a thousand times more beautiful.

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.

I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.