The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.

Faith is the path of least resistance.

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.