"Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it."

"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony."

"We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us."

"In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence."

"Fear will knock at every door; only those with resolved hearts refuse to let it enter. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed."

"Let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky — an essential principle for the reflective life."