The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.
To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, 'Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.'
Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.
I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.
Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.
There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.
It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.
Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!
The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.
Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.
It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.
A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.
I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold
Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.