Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.
Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
Hope is passion for what is possible.
Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.
In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.
It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.
The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!
God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing
In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.
It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.
Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.
The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which is cordial drivel, mediocrity served up sweet. There is nothing that so insidiously displaces the majestic as cordiality.
The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.
My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.
The thing that cowardice fears most is decision
I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.
Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...
The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.
Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?
And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.
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