Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves...Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.

I have only my own burden to bear.

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.

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.