They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.

That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.

What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.

A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.