War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

If you want to be happy, be happy.

Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself.

It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.

ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God.