[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.