For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being is eternity and is hidden from us but none the less gives itself to us for the most part in the power of love and creation.

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.

Everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait and fast.

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.

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.