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.

The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.

Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow