If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.

An 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap-best of all. But God himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite speed, the hunter, King, husband-that is quite another matter.

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I am what I do.

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.