It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

I had a second birth when my soul and my body loved one another and were married.

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.

But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.

If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.

Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.

Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.