When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!

These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.

People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.

People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.