Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

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

Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.

I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away - yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.

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