Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.

He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.

I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?

Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?

Know that I've forgotten precisely nothing; but I've driven it all out of my head for a time, even the memories--until I've radically improved my circumstances. Then...then you'll see, I'll rise from the dead!

In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.