Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.

Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.