I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

There are trials and mistakes and even wars along the path of marriage.

I am the happiest person on this world, who has never seen ups and downs in life. I got whatever I wished for… And I woke up!

It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.

It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.

I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.

If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.

A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.

Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.

I'm always fearful of something happening to people I love. That doesn't go away.