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.

Future is everything that past has forgotten.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

The Bible is God's love letter to us

But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous.

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

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.