I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.

The silence of the forest is my bride and the sweet dark warmth of the whole world is my love, and out of the heart of that dark warmth comes the secret that is heard only in silence, but it is the root of all the secrets that are whispered by all the lovers in their beds all over the world.

The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.

Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

No matter how ruined man and his world may seem to be, and no matter how terrible man's despair may become, as long as he continues to be a man his very humanity continues to tell him that life has a meaning.

The danger of education, I have found, is that it so easily confuses means with ends. Worse than that, it quite easily forgets both and devotes itself merely to the mass production of uneducated gradtuates - people literaly unfit for anything except to take part in an elaborate and completely artificial charade which they and their contemporaries have conspired to call "life".

It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.