Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day.

When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.

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

Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.