Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.

When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened.