[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which is precious to a man-of the chief human property, rational freedom-and become submissive, machine-like implements of murder in the hands of their organized hierarchic authorities.

Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience.

Each time of life has its own kind of love.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world.

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.