The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.

You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.

Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.