“Once you label me you negate me.”
“Be that self which one truly is.”
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
“Purity of heart is to will one thing.”
“What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.”
“Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.”
“Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.”
“It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.”
“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”
“Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.”
“Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.”
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.”
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”
“Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.”
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”
“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.”
“During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.”
“Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.”
“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.”
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
“I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.”
“When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, ''It is talking to me, and about me.''”
“It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important”
“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.”
“It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.”
“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.”
“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.”
“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.”