In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. ... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.

All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person must choose. Terrible is the battle, in a person's innermost being, between God and the world. The crowning risk involved lies in the possession of choice.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.