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