Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.

The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.

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.

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.

I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.