And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love".

In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.

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.

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game.