You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.

"For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that is eternal. It will become evident that formulations in words and the handling on of these formulations through writing are not only important aids but actually the only means by which humanity can have a history and continuing consciousness of itself."