It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.

Split a piece of wood and I am there.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.