“I probably do what I'm controlled to do. Something … made all this: some Impossibility without a name. That's what the world is controlled by: an Impossibility.”

“What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being.”

“If you want something different, DO something different. Without change progress is impossible.”

“It is crazy to want what is impossible. And impossible for the wicked not to do so. (Hays translation)”

“That which is impossible has a permanent and constant property, which is not the result if some agent, and cannot in any way change, and consequently we do not ascribe to God the power of doing what is impossible.”

“Without universities independent of government control, the natural process of acquiring knowledge and developing thought will be thwarted, if not rendered impossible.”

“Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

“Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.”

“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”

“All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.”