The meaning of this is, that whomsoever we love, in him we find our own soul in the highest sense. The final truth of our existence lies in this. God, the Supreme Soul, is in me, as well as in my son, and my joy in my son is the realisation of this truth.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.

I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.

For every child that is born, it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed with man.

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.