Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes.

Good poetry reveals the beauty of joy and tragedy.

I am used to praying when I am alone thank God. But when I come together with other people when I need more than ever to pray I still cannot get used to it.

Your practice should be strengthened by the difficult situations you encounter, just as a bonfire in a strong wind is not blown out, but blazes even brighter.

The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.

Things are achieved when they are well begun.

Jesus took His place in a manger so that we might have a home in Heaven.

Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie.

Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.

As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.