It might be good to open our eyes and see.

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

Love winter when the plant says nothing.

We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.

In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves.