Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

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.

I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.