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.

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

I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

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

When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable.

The greed for fruit misses the flower.