I am who I am and I have the need to be.

Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

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.

The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.

Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.

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.