It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!

We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.

He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.

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

In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall.

Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.