Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.

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

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.