"The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and in human responsibility."

"I really do inhabit a fantastic and mystical world, a world in which I have been able to make a great many things come true."

"The more complete the lie, the more willingly people believe it."

"The only way to overcome evil is to do good."

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."