I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you- for that is the meaning of your life.

I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

Maybe there is a single spot, just one, where living organisms are holed up. Maybe so, but if so this would be the strangest thing of all, absolutely incompreh…

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.