But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

Not the stars, not the farthest solar systems, not the millions of different species of animal life, but the child is the greatest of God's creations.