I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.

Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.

The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin

Love gives beauty to everything it touches.

... let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.