“Man's feet are the measure for distance, his hands are the measure for ownership, his body is the measure for all that is lovable and desirable and strong. Then I went further: it was then that I called to you for the first time, and you would not come.”
“To measure the man, measure his heart.”
“In life, there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure distance between two points. "Time" doesn't pass.”
“(I measure time by how a body sways.)”
“A man's measure is his will.”
“But can you measure someone's love? I want to know. You think you can measure love? She's kind not to laugh at me...No scale would be strong enough, she tells me. It would break to pieces under the weight.”