"She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hallAnd clears it for a different celebration."
"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."
"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."
"A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead."
"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess."
"No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger."