To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.

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.

So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

To Love oneself is Ok but, to love only oneself isn't!

I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.

Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out.

I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.

Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.