Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth will grow every day, and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!

Reason is the slave of passion.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.