I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

In the depths all becomes law.

Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.