My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.