Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode in foreign politics when it is especially an act of internal politics and the most atrocious act of all . . . Since the directing apparatus has no other way of fighting the enemy than by sending its own soldiers, under compulsion, to their death-the war of one state against another state resolves itself into a war of the state and the military apparatus against its own people.

The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.