Love follows knowledge.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset

After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.

Neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds [when they meet me].

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

It is so beautifully ironic that St. Francis - the great lover of animals - is now a pigeon's target in countless yards.

I think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back in them days the city was a lot different than it is now.

I recommend SILENT SPRING above all other books.

We have been cooperating with both the United States and Russia, have been actively supporting a greater understanding between them.