“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.”

“Not everyone can be an orphan.”

“Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.”