The first duty of love is to listen.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Art is the path to being spiritual.

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.