Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

Hell was made for the inquisitive.

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.