A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.