“The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done.”

“The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.”

“Every man who begets a free act projects his personality into the infinite. If he gives a poor man a penny grudgingly, that penny pierces the poor mans hand, falls, pierces the earth, bores holes i...”

“Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain”

“Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?”

“Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.”