Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Become who you are. Make what only you can make.

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.