To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion

What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household. One keeps this anxiety at a distance by looking at the many round about who are related to him as kin and friends, but the anxiety is still there, nevertheless, and one hardly dares think of how he would feel if all this were taken away.

No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.