What we do battle with is so small, what battles us is so large.

He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all.

Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and its clear, smooth surface aquiver from the rising bitter essence.

Love the questions themselves...Live the questions now and have confidence that someday far into the future, [I will live my] way into the answer.

Stand up during supper and walk outdoors, and keep on walking.

That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn. With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered around their solitary, anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love.

I am like a child who awakes At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks, In Thee I am ever secure.