You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive for gain you are but a root that clings to the earth and sucks at her breast. Surely the fruit cannot say to the root, 'Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance.' For to the fruit giving is a need as receiving is a need to the root.

To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does not die; it will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.

Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.