Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.

The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.

For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.