A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel.

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.

God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.

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

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.