Soren Kierkegaard — "The only thing I am afraid of is that I shall not remain a humorist."

"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."

"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."

"The ethical individual is the one who chooses himself, and thereby chooses the universal."

"The infinite resignation is the last stage before faith, so that anyone who has not made this movement has no faith; for only in the infinite resignation does one become conscious of one's eternal val…"

"The true humorist does not want to be a humorist, but an earnest man."