The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of splitting the united or uniting the divided; this is the eternal movement of systole and diastole of the heartbeat, the inhalation and exhalation of the world in which we live, act, and exist.

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.