In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.

You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although only a part of mankind is capable of such despair. Christianity lies in wait for such as those and pursues them

On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.

Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.