Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

Do not measure God's mind by your own.

The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself.

there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.

I believe in fate, never in chance.