You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.