Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

Through our soul is our contact with heaven.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

God does not seek to destroy the evil nations, but their evil.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition of our existence. If the lore of the transmigration of souls is a true one, then these, between their exchange of bodies, must pass through the sea of forgetfulness.

Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.