One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not rouse us with a blow to the head, then why read it?

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.

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.