Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.

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

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.

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.