The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.

A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.