Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.

Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.