To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.

I never started from ideas but always from character.