How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.

He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.