Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

Why do you pray if you doubt you are heard?

Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.

"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."

Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.

Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.

Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.