Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.

But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

Let us first fulfill Christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies of our children, and they are not our children, but our enemies, and we have made them our enemies ourselves.

Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?