The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

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

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

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.

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