The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.