The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.

Be brave, right through, and leave for the unknown.

To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing.

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

The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.

It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.

A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.