God created man incorruptible, and made him in the image of his own nature, but through the devil’s envy, death came into the world.
Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
The superior man does not embark upon any affair until he has carefully planned the start.
No individual is lost and no nation is refused prosperity and success if foundations of their thoughts and actions rest upon piety and godliness, and upon truth and justice.
People will ask me: Don’t you believe in God? No, I don’t. I believe in two things above all: Nature and Love. Nature is all-powerful. Love is how I understand the good. It might have been nice to believe in God, often defined as all-powerful and good, but combining the two like that has always posed too much of a contradiction for my poor mind to believe in.
In thinking, “This is I” and “That is mine”, he binds himself with his self, as does a bird with a snare.
