But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.

He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.

In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.