Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.