The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

The shepherd will deny the diseased lamb in fear of the flock.

He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.

A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, “A mouse will do.

Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.

God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.