Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.

Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvellous error! - That it was God I had here inside my heart.

Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.

My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.

I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.

And to walk through life in dreams out of love for the hand that guides us.