The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

A right which goes unrecognized by anybody is not worth very much.

Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.