"The true lover is the one who loves the beloved for what he is, not for what he has."

"The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply: Create silence! Bring men to silence!"

"The unhappy man is one who has the future for his present, and the present for his future."

"The absolute paradox is that God, the eternal, has entered into time, the temporal, and has become man."

"What is terrible is not death, but the lives people live or don't live up to their death."