The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking.

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

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same.

If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains a relationship to the universe.

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.