It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.

We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.