That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.

To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.