Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.