Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house—do not pass by like a dream.

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.

These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

to tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country

Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.