One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Beauty

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Contentment

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

Doubt

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Forgiveness

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Friends and Friendship

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Fun

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Giving

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Knowledge

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Love

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Money

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Silence

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

Truth

Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth.