We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.

If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.

Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.

There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.

The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine...that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.

Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.