I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically crue…

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. …

Fathers and teachers, I ponder, 'What is hell?' I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.