It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.