I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus...
A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
If there were no God, he would have to be invented.
If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth will grow every day, and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love.
If you can put the question, ‘Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?’ then you are responsible.
I’ve always considered myself smarter than everyone around me, and sometimes, believe me, I’ve been ashamed of it. At the least, all my life I’ve looked away and never could look people straight in the eye.
Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.
Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.
She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
The more you succeed in loving, the more you’ll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.
Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Right attitudes produces right action.
What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?
One man doesn’t believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!