Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.

The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.

I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly

Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return... Forget not that I shall come back to you... A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.