It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.