For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as... - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

"Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness."

"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."

"Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth."

"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."