The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You.

Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.

The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves.

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.