"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."

"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart."

"All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification."

"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."

"Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy."