“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”

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

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

“Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.