For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'

Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

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

Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.

We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.