How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!

The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings.

Be sure to live up to your reputation for honesty and goodness, because many souls who believe you to be honest and good have placed themselves in your hands.

Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection.

I believe I'm a caterpillar buried deep down under the ground. The entire earth is above me, crushing me and I begin to bore through the soil, making a passage to the surface so that I can penetrate the crust and issue into the light. It's hard work boring through the entire earth, but I'm able to be patient because I have a strong premonition that as soon as I do issue into the light I shall become a butterfly.

Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God.

As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.