"The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?"

"Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion."

"Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility."

"Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm."

"Peace begins with a smile."

"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain."

"When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse."

"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."