Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world.

Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More than anything they need to be surrounded with sufficient space―space even more than time.