Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

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.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.

Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.

Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.