Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows with only this one dream: You come too.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

Nothing strange should befall us, but only that which has long belonged to us. We will gradually learn to realize that that which we call destiny goes forth from within people, not from without into them.

Describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts and the belief in some sort of beauty-describe all these with loving, quiet, humble sincerity, and use, to express yourself, the things in your environment, the images from your dreams, and the objects of your memory.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.