The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.