Every morning, I shall concern myself anew about the boundary, Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No, And pressing forward honor reality. We cannot avoid, Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion, To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.

You should carefully observe the way toward which your heart draws you, then choose this way with all your strength.

Only men who are capable of saying Thou [an attitude of deep respect] to one another can truly say we with one another.

This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul's creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being.

All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.