Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.

I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.