The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.

What is gayer than believing in a household god?

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

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

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.