The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.

Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.

The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.

...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.