I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.

If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.