"The greatest strength of the soul is the power to endure."

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what's the point of reading it? So that it will make us h…"

"The man who does not know how to be silent does not know how to speak."

"The greatest cunning of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist."

"I can choose to be an animal, a plant, a stone, a star; it is all the same to me."