"The present state of the world and the whole of life is a big consolation for me. I may not be great, but I'm not the only one who's a failure."

"The most common deception of all is the deception that one is not deceived."

"Woman is weak — no, she is humble, she is much closer to God than man is. Hence it is that love is everything to her, and she will certainly not disdain the blessing and confirmation which God is read…"

"The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen, but, if one will, are to be lived."

"The self is a relation which relates itself to itself or, what is the same thing, is in the relation's relating itself to itself."