How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
To love is to act.
To love beauty is to see light.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
To contemplate is to look at shadows.
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Those who live are those who fight.