What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.

Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself.

There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

What batters you becomes your strength.

Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.

If the Angel deigns to appear, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning — to be a Beginner!

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.