You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to another, the individual love and gentleness between persons, or in any case, the unbreakable bond that grows and fastens lives together in all sorts of mysterious ways.

I can pray better when I'm comfortable.

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

If we say I love you, it may be received with doubt, for there are times when it is hard to believe. Say I hate you, and the one spoken to believes it instantly, once for all. ... Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.