We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.

Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There is no 'how' of life, one just does it.

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.