Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.

I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.

Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.

Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing.

Oh, they loved dearly: their souls kissed, they kissed with their eyes, they were both but one single kiss.