The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?
The wildest colts make the best horses.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.
A healer of others, himself diseased.
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the individual has been socialized, is to absolutize society and confuse society with God.
The fruit falls from the tree when it gets ripe. So wait for the time to come. Do not hurry. Moreover, no one has the right to make others miserable by his foolish acts. Wait, have patience, everything will come right in time.
Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so that they don't have to.
Faith is the flip side of fear.