One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.

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.

If we longer rely on God, it means we have rejected the rule of a righteous Ruler.

Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Honest communication is a rare thing.

Sometimes you get lost and you find something new.

I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

I think the big thing is the fairy tale. It's taking old folk fairy tales and retelling them in modern day. I think it's just taking you out of everyday life, and everyone loves a good fairy tale.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

Children need explanations and they deserve explanations.

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.