Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.

I believe in revelation, but not in revelation which each religion claims to possess... but in the living revelation which surrounds us on every side — mighty, eternal, unceasing, incorruptible, clear, distinct, universal as is the being from whom it proceeds, in that revelation which speaks to us and penetrates us from the moment we are born until we die. - Letter to Fr. Pastells (4 April 1893)

Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
Toast to the artists Juan Luna and Felix Hidalgo, Spain (25 June 1884)