Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.

Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?

Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but not only was he not accustomed to the thought, he simply did not and could not grasp it. The syllogism he had learnt from Kiesewetter's Logic: "Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal," had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius, but certainly not as applied to himself. That Caius - man in the abstract - was mortal, was perfectly correct, but he was not Caius, not an abstract man, but a creature quite, quite separate from all others.

I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.