It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life... - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"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."

"Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled."

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

"We are all happy if we but knew it."

"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt."