It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again.

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

I would have perished had I not perished.

People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his own way.

Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.

I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God