The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.

To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

The body is our general medium for having a world.

Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into it and sustains it inwardly, and with it forms a system.

I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

Solitary confinement is rock bottom, it’s absolute unfreedom.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

There is a unique Math behind the very notion of life, I seek it.

Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.

The inner nature of man is the province of Music.

I like birthdays. Every time someone is born, that's just like bringing more cake into the world.

After the feet of beauty fly my own.

The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court.

To speak of love is to make love.

God has given us enough wisdom to make improvements in our relations.