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!

The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.

Your soul is the whole world.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently.

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.