He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.

Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

You, the strong, have I loved, though the marks of your iron hoofs are yet upon my flesh.

I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.