“Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?”

To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

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

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

Hope is a passion for the possible.

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory.

Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection

The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.

I am convinced that God is love.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

I want to be blunt: We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work, and access to birth control, in 2012. These issues were resolved years ago – until the Republicans brought them back.

When we lose a piece of love we were holding so close to our heart and our soul for so long. We sometimes wonder if it will return the same or differently or has it fallen beneath the settling of our past.

The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either.

My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.

It’s the blood of the ancients that runs through the veins.

I like to use the hard times of the past to motivate me today.

Don’t use the hardships of your past as excuses to deny the possibilities of your future.