Life never gives more than partial liberation. Achievement can never be more than fragmentary.

I am a butterfly drunk with life. I don't know where to soar, but I won't allow life to clip my beautiful wings.

Children, being small and weak, have little market value.

The court does not fly off the handle. It does not shout abuse. It speaks calmly.

Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.

Man feels and ponders death as though it were the end, when in fact death is merely the continuation of life. It is another life. You may not believe in the existence of the soul, yet you must acknowledge that your body will live on as green grass, as a cloud. For you are, after all, water and dust.

I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.