"Profound love demands a deep conception and..." - Quote by Albert Schweitzer

“No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.”

“Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.”

“Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.”

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.”

“Fear gone, there can be no hatred.”

“Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty places at once - hit, roused, scraped, bared, swung through the air, so that life seems to flash by; then again blinded, knocked on the head - all of which are agreeable sensations for a reader (since nothing is more dismal than to open the door and get no response).”

“The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”

“Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself.”