The only way to save yourself is to endeavor to save others.
Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God.
There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.
As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine.
My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.