Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.

He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

You must not expect anything from others. It's you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right to ask everything and anything. This way it's up to you - your own choices - what you get from others remains a present, a gift.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

But the others, those who tried to bring Jesus to life at the call of love, found it a cruel task to be honest. The critical study of the life of Jesus has been for theology a school of honesty. The world had never seen before, and will never see again, a struggle for truth so full of pain and renunciation as that of which the Lives of Jesus of the last hundred years contain the cryptic record.