Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.

God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better.

Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.

All things want to float.

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret