Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

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

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.

I am who I am and I have the need to be.

Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.