When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

It is never too late to be who you want to be.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.