And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans--and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused--and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself.

One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.

The times when we need prayers or counsel, we are little like to be in a mood to learn, nor yet to understand.

Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson.

No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.

The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.

Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.