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

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.

One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make

We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.