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.

God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing

To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.

If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

It is modest of the nightingale not to require anyone to listen to it; but it is also proud of the nightingale not to care whether any one listens to it or not.