God is the pain of the fear of death

... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

It's not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles.

Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.

I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!

Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible to love one's neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close.