Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely.

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

I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read.

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

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

the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.