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.

Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.

The only time a juggler / Appeals to me / Is when I see him / Miss the ball.

There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into a perpetual awareness that makes a person forget the past, for it kindles fiercely in the heart the sweet and overwhelming hope of the coming future.

How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.

You who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.

If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness.