“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

A wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.

The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

The only journey is the one within.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.

To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.

There’s more impact if you burn somebody with your eyes, look straight into him and let him know with a look.

My job, my whole life, I’ve always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And I don’t know how I would succeed without it. So I welcome it, and it gives me a challenge, and I will see if I can live up to my challenge.

I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.

I’m a big kid, you know?

I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.

You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.

I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up.