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

Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.

Faith is holding onto uncertainties with passionate conviction.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.

It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.

We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction