The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

The Kingdom of God is Within You.

Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?" And I searched for an answer to my questions in every area of knowledge acquired by man. For a long time I carried on my painstaking search; I did not search casually, out of mere curiosity, but painfully, persistently, day and night, like a dying man seeking salvation. I found nothing.

You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so...yes, love!

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

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