To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.
When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.
There is no other teacher but your own soul.
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.
There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.
Let friend trust friends, and love demand love's like.
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.