I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.

What is vanity but the longing to survive?

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.