The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.