What joins men together ... is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.

See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire.

Ever step you take is forever.

There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking at the dead roadside trees. It's okay, the man said. All the trees in the world are going to fall sooner or later. But not on us.

To see God everywhere is to see Him nowhere.

The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.

He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.