Conversion is not a single prayer. Conversion is pilgrimage.

The moment that we think we know, we’ve lost our perspective on wisdom.

What they ask you for is actions, proofs, works, and all you can produce are transformed tears.

There isn't a soul on the planet who doesn't crave your approval.

The real core of this book is about the open secrets that can fester in a community until an outsider raises questions.

She laughs, and that's really all he wanted.

We don't look at teachers as scholars the way they do in Europe. In Spain you're called a professor if you're a high school teacher, and they pay teachers - they pay teachers in Europe.

I found out water can be drunk straight.

The soule needs few things, the body many.

Exercise, not philosophically and with religious gravity undertaken, but the wild romping activities of a spirited girl who runs up and down as though her veins were full of wine.

The fad diets that many Americans are on are perfect if you want to be hungry all the time and miserable.

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.