He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.

We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

The longest journey
Is the journey inwards.
Of him who has chosen his destiny,
Who has started upon his quest
For the source of his being.