"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you."
"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."
"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."
"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."
"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."
"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."