How little do the wisest among us know of that which is so important to us all.

Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.

How little do the wisest among us know of that which is so important to us all.

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.

If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths, which no divers know.