Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
Hope is a risk that must be run.
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.
God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.