The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

Everyone looks the same to me in a photograph: stupid.

Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.

Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household. One keeps this anxiety at a distance by looking at the many round about who are related to him as kin and friends, but the anxiety is still there, nevertheless, and one hardly dares think of how he would feel if all this were taken away.

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.