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.

But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you?

And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.

Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them.

I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.

For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.