Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.

Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.

gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

All higher humour begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.

The truth is lived, not taught.

God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.