Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.