Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.

The seasons shall tire and the years grow old, ere they exhaust these words: “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.

I have met the soul walking upon my path.

I go — as others already crucified have gone. And think not we are weary of crucifixion. For we must be crucified by larger and yet larger men, between greater earths and greater heavens.

All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you. The speech they weave is a link between you and your human siblings. The consequences that cause sorrow and rapture are the seeds that the past has sown in the field of the soul, and by which the future shall profit.

They say if one understands himself, he understands all people. But I say to you, when one loves people, he learns something about himself.

Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes.