“He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”

“A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.”

“Surely the glory of finally getting rid of and burying a long and troublesome matter should be as great as that of making an important discovery. The trouble is that the coverer is like Samson who perished in the wreck of what he had destroyed; if he gets rid of a thing effectually he gets rid of himself too.”

“The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.”

“Whatever pain you can't get rid of, make it your creative offering.”

“Being with Mary was different because… he wasn't the only one who wanted to make love to her.
The beast wanted her, too.
The beast wanted out so it could take her.”

“God himself has made it possible for you to live without the dark place and the pains that rush out and flood out and take you over. Your choice of wanting to see and work is essential to you if you want to get rid of your feeling of emptiness, of futility. You've lied to yourself and said, 'I know what to do to get rid of the pain.' You've never gotten rid of the pain and that's evidence of self-deceit. You have to stop playing cruel tricks on yourself. So stop. Now.”

“1345. Drunkenness turns a Man out of himself, and leaves a Beast in his room.”

“The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.”

“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.”