Distance is the soul of beauty.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.