Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it little or much. Every person can do that.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.

For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.

The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.