Let us be servants in order to be leaders.

As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture.

The world says: "You have needs - satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.

I want to suffer so that I may love.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!