I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

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

I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly

The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

Boredom: the desire for desires.