Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul. The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers. They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve. | 
