"The most tremendous energy of which human nature is capable is the agony of being a self."

"The individual is prior to the species."

"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints,…"

"The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that."

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