Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man.

Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.

Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.