For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.

When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.