"Comparison is the end of happiness and the beginning of dissatisfaction."

"Freedom's possibility is not to be able to do this or that, but to be able to do this and that."

"The present age is essentially a sensible, reflecting age, which is without passion, and which therefore breaks out into no enthusiasm."

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

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