"There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions."

"The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic."

"When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others."

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

"I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles."

"To love someone is to identify with them."

"There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears."

"No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement."

"The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one."

"As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever."

"The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth."