But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.

Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when man overstrains his reason and tries to reduce to rational order matters that are susceptible of rational treatment. Then there arise ideals such as those of the Americans or of the Bolsheviks. Both are extraordinarily rational, and both lead to a frightful oppression and impoverishment of life, because they simplify it so crudely. The likeness of man, once a high ideal, is in process of becoming a machine-made article. It is for madmen like us, perhaps, to ennoble it again.

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.

Should we be mindful of dreams?" Joseph asked. "Can we interpret them?" The Master looked into his eyes and said tersely: "We should be mindful of everything, for we can interpret everything.