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

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

"The highest good is not to be found in the world, but in God."

"Dread is an adventure that every man has to undergo."

"The highest good is not to be understood as an abstract, but as a concrete, as a personality."