I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper.

It's simpler to believe in a miracle.

For as soon as something becomes impossible it slipslides out of belief entirely, whether it’s true or not.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses

So don't let money tell you who you are. Don't let power tell you who your are. Don't let enemies and -- for God's sake -- don't let your sins tell you who you are. Don't prove yourself. That's taken care of. All we have to do is express ourselves. It's difficult, but we're a lot more alive in pain than in complacency.