Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

There nearly always is a method in madness.