To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.

Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.

It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way to supplant Europe.

We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.

We exist within the question of God.

The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.

Even if there were no ear for them but the void, our prayers would still be the only things that sanctify our existence.

In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all meanings start. That is where, in any case, the philosopher has perpetually to start.

The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what end?

O Lord, I am further away from me than from You!

Grief is itself a med'cine.

I wouldn't really call myself a feminist. I obviously want equality and equal opportunities to the men.

If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.

Live to fight on other days.

What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.

Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

The power that flows from His name, the name Jesus, will be in proportion to our love for His Word.

I am off all the cancer meds. Energy is a bit low but other than that, I feel really good.