I know that each one of us travels to love alone, alone to faith and to death. I know it. I've tried it. It doesn't help. Let me come with you.

I dissolved, so white, so unapproachable, amid my white flame, in the whiteness of moonlight

All the words are not enough to get anything said.

It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet.

They say, they own a piece of land. I say, you don’t even own your own body.

Dogs aren't born knowing what or what not to do; they only learn like children.

The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence.

The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.

That she bear children is not a woman's significance. But that she bear herself, that is her supreme and risky fate.

If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.

I have a desperate longing to have a desperate longing

Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep working. I ask the Almighty for help. That frees me.

Death is the quiet haven of us all.