Hope is a passion for the possible.

If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.

Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.

To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.

Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.

Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known anxiety or by sinking under it. He therefore who has leaned rightly to be in anxiety has learned the most important thing.