The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

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

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.