Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.

It doesn't matter whether or not you have a head, you must wear the right sort of hat

What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a man's height above the earth - that's true. Whatever clips off man's wings - that's false.

When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too.

I was ill before I fell ill.

You do miracles if you concentrate your mind on one thing and one thing only.