In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.

If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility;yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility.

Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.

We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.