Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.

I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.