When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.

People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems... But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you'll have stars like nobody else... since I'll be laughing on one of them, for you it'll be as if all the stars are laughing. You'll have stars that can laugh!... and it'll be as if I had given you, instead of stars, a lot of tiny bells that know how to laugh.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

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.

I am a fox", the fox said.

To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.