Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.