Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.
We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
One and God make a majority.
God lets everything happen for a reason. It’s all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.