I began to realize that the most profound wisdom of man was rooted in the answers given by faith and that I did not have the right to deny them on the grounds of reason; above all, I realized that these answers alone can form a reply to the question of life.

It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.