They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be couriers. Therefore there are only couriers who hurry about the world, shouting to each other - since there are no kings - messages that have become meaningless. They would like to put an end to this miserable life of theirs but they dare not because of their oaths of service.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.