Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.

What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.

Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction.

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.

As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

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