No wide road leads to God.

Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.

By believing passionately in that which doesn't exist, you create it and that which has not been sufficiently desired is what we call the non existent.

The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.

This book was not written because I wanted to offer a supreme model to the man who struggles; I wanted to show him that he must not fear pain, temptation or death - because all three can be conquered, all three have already been conquered. Christ suffered pain, and since then pain has been sanctified. Temptation fought until the very last moment to lead him astray, and Temptation was defeated. Christ died on the Cross, and at that instant death was vanquished forever.

God sends rain, but He also sends hoods; and when the rain grows heavier, He sends a cave.

I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.