No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.

The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature.

One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.

If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.

When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".

God has given each of us our "marching order." Our purpose here on Earth is to find those orders and carry them out. Those orders acknowledge our special gifts.