If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like the night with starry vigil and its head bent low with patience. The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish, and thy voice pour down in golden streams breaking through the sky. Then thy words will take wing in songs from every one of my birds' nests, and thy melodies will break forth in flowers in all my forest groves.

I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.

Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him.