I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Once you label me you negate me.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

He was a small, chubby little man with a perpetual air of sadness about him, making him look like a baby that has dropped its rattle.

It took me a lifetime.

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.

Hitler's movement is near to Mohammedanism.

Troubles, even the dullest, are always mildly interesting at the first hearing.

Exercise: you don't have time not to

I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.