By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.

When the image is new, the world is new.

Our house is our corner of the world.

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.

I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind

Everything is possible to god, even your success

But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?

The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.

Practice like it's competition and compete like it's another day on the practice court.

Aristocracy is a relative thing. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way places where the son of an upholsterer is the arbiter of fashion and reigns over a court like any young Prince of Wales.

It would be easy to abuse a person when they never recognized it as abuse.

Do not think that years leave us and find us the same!

The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish.

My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.