Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love people the more they'll mix you up. A child loves, a person respects. Respect is better than love.

...chaos doesn't run the whole show.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?

It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.

At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.

It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.