Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. v

A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.

It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite.

Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth- bound.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, “I was beaten.” He does not say, “My men were beaten.” Thus speaks a real man.

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.

The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.