For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself - that he gave up in order to have more here or at least to feel that he has "more".

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.