Great Throughts Treasury

"No one is as whole as he who has a broken heart."

"The road through life is like the edge of a blade, with the netherworld on either side."

"If someone comes to you and asks your help, you shall not turn him off with pious words, saying, “Have faith and take your troubles to God!” You shall act as if there were no God, as if there were only one person in all the world who could help this man–only yourself."

"A human being who has not a single hour for his own every day is not much of a human being."

"I do not know how to light the fire, I do not know the prayer, but I know the place and this must be sufficient. [When he saw the war approaching, he went to the forest and said this]"

"I don’t know how to light the holy fire, nor do I know the special prayer, but I still remember the place. Help us, Lord!"