Everything is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding; then all is well with me and nothing can harm me.

our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.

That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die!

I can think. I can wait. I can fast.

To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.