The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

...knowing God is the condition for the sanctification of a human being by God's assistance and according to His intention. Wherever God is, there He is always creating... He wants to create a new human being. To need God is to become new. And to know God is the crucial thing.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads Pressing Done Here. If you brought your clothes in to be pressed, you would be fooled: for the sign is only for sale.

The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

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