"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

"What we call 'nature' is a system of events. But there is another kind of system, a system of events which are not natural, but supernatural."

"The finest moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… but rather the times when we are stretched to our limits."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."

"The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'real' life. The truth is, of course, that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's re…"