It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.

If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness will come, must come. It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe. If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well, the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.

Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits.

Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.

I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!

Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders. And from the sacred mountain I heard a voice which said, ‘Knowledge is love and light and vision.