Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Don't forget to love yourself.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
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.
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
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.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
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.
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.