Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.

Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.

Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.

On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.