“The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.”
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Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.