Without them, anarchy would reign and humanity would drop backward into the primitive night out of which it had so painfully emerged.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

While God sustains the burden of the world, the spurious ego assumes its burden, grimacing like an image on a tower, seeming to support it. If the traveller in a carriage, which can carry any weight, does not lay his luggage down but carries it painfully on his head, whose is the fault?