Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law.

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!

Life + a cat ... adds up to an incalculable sum.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

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

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.