It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

Religions get lost as people do.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.