From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.

Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.