There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?

One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.

Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.

"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."