The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.

the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.