God has given each of us our "marching order." Our purpose here on Earth is to find those orders and carry them out. Those orders acknowledge our special gifts.

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.

Hope is passion for what is possible.

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

It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.