Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.