"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."
"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."
"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."
"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."