Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
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.
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
Don't forget to love yourself.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.