"There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God."

"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

"It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous."

"Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?"

"The moral compass points true only when freed from the magnetism of personal gain. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms."

"Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new."

"It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around."