The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.