You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.

Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting.

The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.

Man hurries, God does not. That is why man's works are uncertain and maimed, while God's are flawless and sure. My eyes welling with tears, I vowed never to transgress this eternal law again. Like a tree I would be blasted by wind, struck by sun and rain, and would wait with confidence; the long-desired hour of flowering and fruit would come.

Ah, if you could dance all that you've just said, then I'd understand.

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

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning, I thought. Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics; woe to anyone who begins to decipher them and guess what they mean.... When you see them, you do not understand them. You think they are really men, animals, trees, stars. It is only years later, too late, that you understand.