When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.

Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun.

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore.

The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.