"The true humorist does not want to be a humorist, but an earnest man."

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."

"The most common form of despair is not being who you are."

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

"Despair is the sickness unto death, this tormenting contradiction, this sickness in the self; it is to be eternally dying, to die and yet not die, to die the death."