We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

If you think you understand, it isn't God.

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

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.

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious.