You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.

There's a way out of every situation.

Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!

Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.