Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world; it does not disclose its desirability except to those who first feel the influence of falsehood. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

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

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

God has created several doors which open onto truth. He opens them to all those who knock on them with the hand of faith.

In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.

Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.

Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.