We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.

People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

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.

He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication in the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.