Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.

What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.