Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day

Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.

But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.