The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.

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.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.