“Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor”

“El tiempo físico nos es extraño,mientras el tiempo interior es nosotros mismos.”

“ان الأساليب التي تستخدمها الأعضاء في بناء نفسها غريبة على العقل البشري. أكوام من المادة تنبثق من خلية واحدة مفردة، كأن بيتاً بأكمله يبنى من طوبه سحرية، طوبة تقوم تلقائيا بتوليد وحدات أخرى من الطوب و تنمو الأعضاء بطريقة تذكرنا بما تفعله الجنّيات في قصص الأطفال. أن عقولنا تتوه تماما في العالم الداخلي للأعضاء”

“Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.”

“Happiness depends on one being exactly fitted to the nature of one's work.”

“I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God. He is seen but for a moment wandering on the verge of two abysses, and then is lost.If man were wholly ignorant of himself he would have no poetry in him, for one cannot describe what one does not conceive. If he saw himself clearly, his imagination would remain idle and would have nothing to add to the picture. But the nature of man is sufficiently revealed for him to know something of himself and sufficiently veiled to leave much impenetrable darkness, a darkness in which he ever gropes, forever in vain, trying to understand himself.”

“It was not man who implanted in himself what is infinite and the love of what is immortal: those lofty instincts are not the offspring of his capricious will; their steadfast foundation is fixed in human nature, and they exist in spite of his efforts. He may cross and distort them – destroy them he cannot. The soul wants which must be satisfied; and whatever pains be taken to divert it from itself, it soon grows weary, restless, and disquieted amidst the enjoyments of sense.”