Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

God has given each of us our "marching order." Our purpose here on Earth is to find those orders and carry them out. Those orders acknowledge our special gifts.

I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.