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.

Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.

To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.

He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.