To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.

Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.

The God that can be named is not God.

The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.

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

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.