You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!

What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.

Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.