Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

Love those you hate you.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of beginning it; but it belongs to government alone, when it becomes inevitable.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.