The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.

Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.

He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler

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.

I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.