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If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.

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

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.