“My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first,”

Time takes all and gives all

He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.

There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.

Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties… everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.

The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .

Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end.

The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.

The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.

You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.

I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.

Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity.

I have held and hold souls to be immortal…. Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell.

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.

From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.

If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.

I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.

A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

I can’t do anything in moderation.

To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so.

Rich people focus on what they want, while poor people focus on what they don’t want.

Remember, your motto is, if they can do it, I can do it!

If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.