“The soul is healed by being with children.”

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.

I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

Beauty will save the world.

To love someone means to see them as God intended them.

To love someone means to see them as God intended them.

This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.

To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.

Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.

There is a world up ahead where people are not targeted for beliefs or bodies, where peace isn’t a fantasy but reality. Build the world you hope your children will see.

See, my children, a person who is in a state of sin is always sad. Whatever he does, he is weary and disgusted with every thing; while he who is at peace with God is always happy, always joyous. . . Oh, beautiful life! Oh, beautiful death!

As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on – almost too good.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

We’re all a nation that believes we’re children of the same god.

If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God.