God knows what lives in me in place of me.

It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love you will grow surer of the reality of God and of the immortality of your soul. If you attain to perfect self-forgetfulness in the love of your neighbour, then you will believe without doubt, and no doubt can possibly enter your soul. This has been tried. This is certain.

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!