It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

Faith is the path of least resistance.

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.