If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day a novel should not be interrupted.

No man can bear a child's cross.

The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérèse despised them for confounding virtue with ignorance.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

She was surprised to find that something from deep down in herself welled into her eyes and burned her cheeks: a few poor tears shed by one who never cried!

To gain something, be ready to give up something.

There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.

An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever I could not sing an air to save my life but I have the intensest delight in music and can detect good from bad.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.

Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.

Jazz to me is a living music.

Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.

We are now as I wished we could be then.

The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.