A curiously interested observer sees a great deal, a scientifically interested observer is worthy of all honor, and anxiously interested observer sees what others do not see, but a crazy observer sees perhaps the most, his observation is more intense and more persistent, just as the senses of certain animals are sharper than those of man.

Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres; different sides of the soul are set in motion. . . . Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.

Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.

Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.

The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it.