Self-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Self-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.