Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along.

Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.