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.

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

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.

It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.

Be that self which one truly is.

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

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.