"Comparison is the end of happiness and the beginning of dissatisfaction."

"I see it all, I understand it all, I grasp it all, but I do not want to obey."

"The most dreadful of all diseases is to be a nonentity."

"The task is to understand myself, to understand what I am to do, to see what God really wishes me to do; the point is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I can live and d…"

"All existence makes me anxious, from the smallest fly to the mysteries of the Incarnation; the whole thing is inexplicable, I most of all; to me all existence is infected, I most of all. My distress i…"