I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.

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.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

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.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.