Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.