People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

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.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began.