...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If you understood only one passage in all of Scripture, well, then you must do that first of all. It will be this passage God asks you about. Do not first sit down and ponder the obscure passages. God's Word is given in order that you shall act according to it, not that you gain expertise in interpreting it.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

The door to happiness opens outward.

I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?

You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.