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.

I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.

To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.

The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.

Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.