God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.