"One day, when I was about eleven, I was sitting in the garden, waiting for my mother, and I had a vision. The world suddenly became transparent. I saw into the depths of things. The trees, the houses,…"

"Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."

"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."

"The greatest danger for all of us is to lose our own souls."

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."