"We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imag…"

"The finest moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… but rather the times when we are stretched to our limits."

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it."

"I can imagine a man being so immersed in his own troubles that he does not attend to the sufferings of others, but I cannot imagine a man being so happy that he does not attend to the sufferings of ot…"

"Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny."