Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.
Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.
Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
Hell is not to love anymore.
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
How much we can do depends on how much we think we can do. When you really believe you can do more, your mind thinks creatively and shows you the way.
We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.