Rather than being guided by images of how to be, people need to attend to how they actually are and to respect this.

I wonder if it's a special sin to lie to a nun

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents.

I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.

If goods don't cross borders, armies will.

Look at how beautiful life is, and just keep looking until you see it. You don't see what is in front of you because you're so distracted by your thoughts.

One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power.

Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!

But it's not the name I'd give to a conqueror of worlds... I would've gone with Thundro or Ragnor. I might just call him Thundro anyway.