» I don't know Who -- or what -- put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone --or Something --and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.
» In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
» It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
» Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
» Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
» Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
» If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
» In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.
» Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
» We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.