Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love you will grow surer of the reality of God and of the immortality of your soul. If you attain to perfect self-forgetfulness in the love of your neighbour, then you will believe without doubt, and no doubt can possibly enter your soul. This has been tried. This is certain.

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.

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.

Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

...it all, maybe, most likely, indeed, might turn out for the best.