Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

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

People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his own way.

I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole.

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes--and your enemy looks just like your neighbor.

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