For every child that is born, it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed with man.

We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.

The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."

One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite.

If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean? Then one has either to change the subject, or make it more abstruse by saying that the scent is the shape which the universal joy takes in the flower.

O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.

The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.