Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!

In the faces of men and women, I see God.

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles

O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?

Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this façade—this smooth and tolerant manner of me? Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man? Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?