"To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness."

"In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness."

"Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew."

"Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: “Great God, grant that twice two be not four.”"

"Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented."

"Do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold."

"What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?"

"There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience."