“And what is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?”

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.”

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”

“It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would wither.”