Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn't help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.