One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one.

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.