Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.

The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.

A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.