Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.

Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.

People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.