How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.

There are hundred reasons to worry but the only way to keep out of this 'net' of worry is to pray.

What does it mean to be me? I don't know. Maybe that's just it. Maybe it doesn't mean anything. Maybe that's the answer. Maybe all I am is emptiness, is nothing.

When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting

We let 50,000 Jewish intellectuals get across the border. Just as I wanted Lebensraum for Germany, I thought Jews should have a Lebensraum for themselves--outside of Germany.

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom.

Those who love and who have a sense of purity live in a very luminous band of awareness.

Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.

The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.

I've got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.