Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.

The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.

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.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.

There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.

Now I realize that the trees blossom in Spring and bear fruit in Summer without seeking praise; and they drop their leaves in Autumn and become naked in Winter without fearing blame.