It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.

lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky.

To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.

The truth is lived, not taught.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid.