"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love."
"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's."
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."
"The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!"
"Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness."
"I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."
"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"
"Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being."
"To love someone means to see them as God intended them."
"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."
"My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?"
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."
"Without God all things are permitted."
"The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence."
"What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?"
"We are all happy if we but knew it."
"But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt."
"If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth."
"Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled."
"He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely."
"Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness."
"Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely."
"Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth."
"For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it."
"originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle."