"The 'Kingdom of God' is not a thing one waits for; it is a movement within us."

"The most effective way to inflict pain on another person is to pretend that they don't exist."

"Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood."

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, how much pain, how much torture it endures and knows how to transform to its advantage."