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.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak.

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.