As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and on the other hand, the sure flight of the birds recalled the words spoken by Christ: Not a sparrow shall fall on the ground without your Father: then, all at once, I felt how great and how small I was; then did those two mighty forces, pride and humility, happily unite in friendship.

The meaning lies in the appropriation.

You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.