“The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.”

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.

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, ‘Create silence’.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Don’t forget to love yourself.

The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.

Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.

It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.