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.

The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes and joyfully plays on the chords of my heart in varied cadence of pleasure and pain.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.