But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.

I had a second birth when my soul and my body loved one another and were married.

Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.

They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.

How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.

He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.