The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.