"One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life."

"In love, one and one are one."

"Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still."

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

"It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us."

"The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible."

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts."

"Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art."

"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen."

"Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life."

"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better."

"It is within the families themselves where peace can begin."

"Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious."

"Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family."

"The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses."

"Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by."

"I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become."

"She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation."