It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.

When the image is new, the world is new.

Our house is our corner of the world.

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.

A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.

I have found that it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable.

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

The old farm roads a four lane that leads to the mall, and our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.

If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower.

The Supreme Court is the last refuge in America for our rights and liberties.

Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.

I am a Broadway theatre guy... so it was kind of my goal this year to come out to LA for pilot season and expand my horizons

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.