Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?

The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.

I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact - to borrow from the language of the saints - to live 'in grace' as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony.

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

One must lose one's life to find it.