Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.

This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.

The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.

Future is everything that past has forgotten.

That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself.