"The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all."

"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."

"Faith is the highest passion in a human being."

"To be a human being is to be in a state of eternal becoming, and that is why no one can capture himself in a definition."

"My life is an inexplicable contradiction. I am one who has been made to smile by the thought of hanging myself."