Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.

We're asleep until we love.

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is all the very nature of the soul. Love is life. All, all that I understand, I understand only because of love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God and dying means for me a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love.