The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.

A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.