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.

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

He who masters the grey everyday is a hero.

Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.

A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.