The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.