If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity - for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.

If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

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

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.