Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God have pity upon you. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.

In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.

And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.