The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

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.

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God