Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.

When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

To be closer to god, be closer to people.

I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.

A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.