The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

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

A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.

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

We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where the beauty of nature and the noblest pursuits of man are in a sweet harmony.

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.