On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself "Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.