Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.

It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

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

If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.

God is the same everywhere.