People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than any other, and which includes all other things: the improvement of their soul

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness

There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.

Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the self-awareness of the divinity. To love life is to love God. The hardest and most blissful thing is to love this life in one's suffering, in the guiltlessness of suffering.