It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.

It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.

Use words to please, to instruct, to soothe. Then stop speaking.

Among all the wisdom and facts I learned from Giannon, I also learned the loneliness of incarnation, in which there is inevitably a separation of souls because of the uniqueness of our faces and our experiences. And I learned also the moments when the current of my life joins the current of another life, and I can glimpse for a moment the one flowing body of water we all compose.

Knowledge often spoils devotion.

I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.

It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.