“I am inviting you to step forward, to be seen, and to ask yourself if not me, who, if not now when.”

“As you see yourself, I once saw myself; as you see me now, you will be seen.”

“Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.”

“You invite no man to dinner, Cotta, but your bath-companion; the baths alone provide you with a guest. I was wondering why you had never asked me; now I understand that when naked I displeased you.”
Invitas nullum nisi cum quo, Cotta, lavaris et dant convivam balnea sola tibi mirabar quare numquam me, Cotta, vocasses: iam scio me nudum displicuisse tibi.

“People say, I am afraid of changes. But who is asking you to change? Knowledge is not a change. When you see yourself in the mirror, the first thing you will realize is that beauty that you have always looked for is right there. That's the first thing you will realize. That, to me, is the magic of this Knowledge.”

“IF you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when?”

“Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.”

“When we open ourselves
you yourself to me and I myself to you,
when we submerge
you into me and I into you
when we vanish
into me you and into you I

Then
am I me
and you are you.”

“You ask yourself "What is love? Am I in love?", when what you should be asking is, "What is not love?", ma petite. What is it that this man does for you that is not done out of love?”

“To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize?”