For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.

Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

Beauty will save the world

If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth will grow every day, and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.