Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.
Henri Becquerel

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.