Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

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?

It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.

A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.