Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.

I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.

It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.

Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has been misplaced. I think now that if I had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home.