Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.

My house says to me, "do not leave me, for here dwells your past." And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future." And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death change all things."

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

Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

The highest virtue here may be least in another world.