It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

The big art is our life.

A great hope fellYou heard no noiseThe ruin was within.

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

The people elected us to end the talk and to act decisively.

An extraordinary set of reminiscences, beautifully put together by an extremely sensitive, even gifted interviewer. It is a jewel.

Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.

Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited

The weak against the strong, Is always in the wrong.

Bien que les étoiles ne parlent pas, même en étant silencieux, ils crient. Although the stars do not speak, even in being silent they cry out.

It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.

If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours.