The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.