Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.

My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.

So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.