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.

When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.

I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.

Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

And it is so simple... The one thing is - love thy neighbor as thyself - that is the one thing. That is all, nothing else is needed. You will instantly find how to live.

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