One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.