He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.

It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.