In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.

What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.

Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

But people will laugh at all sorts of things.

It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!"