to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.

Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love

No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.

Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.