Defeat, my defeat, my deathless courage, You and I shall laugh together with the storm, And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us, and we shall stand in the sun with a will, And we shall be dangerous

When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

The longing for paradise is paradise itself.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees.

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.