Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to Nature and Life.

Friendship is identification and difference

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.