God does not seek to destroy the evil nations, but their evil.
Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.
The best security for old age: respect your children.
Every dawn renews the Beginning, and to behold the earth struggling out of the formless void, out of the night, is to witness the act of creation.
I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.
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.