Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this incomparable agony, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.

Man alone can enslave man.

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.