It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just as we are, who see the truth as we do...and are only waiting, again as we are, for someone to proclaim it. The Kingdom of God is within you.

There are such repulsive faces in the world.

He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.