Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.

Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.

The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

I began to realize that the most profound wisdom of man was rooted in the answers given by faith and that I did not have the right to deny them on the grounds of reason; above all, I realized that these answers alone can form a reply to the question of life.

To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with your belief, and you must strive to understand better that which you call God.