I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge.

Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.