If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.

Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.

A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.

Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.

The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.

Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.