We're asleep until we love.

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness, but with qualities which are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, cruelty.

Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.

Energy is based on love.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.

In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

Life is fragile and absurd.

I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything.