I am a frail vessel full of errors.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be gainer; for to forget oneself is to be happy.

Always there remains portions of our heart into which no one is able to enter, invite them as we may.

For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost ... not 'til we are lost ... do we begin to find ourselves.

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed ... As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it ...

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

I can't do anything about the state of the world, but I can put my own life in order.

I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the voice of God replied: I am not, either. I dreamed the world the way you dreamed your work, my Shakespeare: one of the forms of my dream was you, who, like me, are many and one.