The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.

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.

Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend.

Every new morning brings new freshness and new renewal.

Even when I press against him his presence is too far away.

Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.

Every city and country just has a different reason for wanting to host the [Olympic] games.

All religion and all ethics are summed up in justice.

We're going to be on the ground in Iraq as soldiers and citizens for years. We're going to be running a colony almost.