If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.

I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.

Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.

I would prefer to battle the 'I'm special' feeling not by the thought, 'I'm no more special than anyone else,' by by the feeling, 'Everyone is as special as me.'

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change #‎ God - it changes me.