"God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them."

"One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts."

"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you."

"Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself."

"Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything."

"We meet no ordinary people in our lives."