The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.

Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.

Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.

Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.