Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.

Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize.

Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.