The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

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

Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is bent flat, it gathers all the power of the wind without hampering its course. Like light-- In light, lit through by light, transformed into light. Like the lens which disappears in the light it focuses. Like wind. Like light. Just this--on these expanses, on these heights.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.

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

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.