Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.