Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.

Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.

The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.