If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.

Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

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

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.

Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.