If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.

... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.

The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!

At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours.

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.'

I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.' 'Love life more than the meaning of it?' 'Yes, certainly. Love it regardless of logic, as you say. Yes, most certainly regardless of logic, for only then will I grasp its meaning. That's what I've been vaguely aware of for a long time. Half your work is done, Ivan: you love life. Now you must try to do the second half and you are saved.