Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.

Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.

If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own.

Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.

For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door.

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

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.