“ Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. ”

“ Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. ”

“ Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. ”

“ When ambition ends, happiness begins. ”

“ The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ”

“ If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. ”

“ We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. ”

“ We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness. ”

“ By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. ”

“ Perhaps I am stronger than I think. ”