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

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

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

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.

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.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

Every experience has its element of magic.