With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness the more intense the despair.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

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

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

Someone once said that nostalgia is longing for a place you’d never go back to and thinking about it… that’s pretty much how I’m feeling about my ex-husband: longing for someone I’d never go back to.

So you have something important to say, so you interrupt an exciting conversation already in progress just to let us know you have nothing to contribute to the discussion. Umm....

To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.

We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species? Who speaks for Earth?

He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right.

If I were a worm, I would rather be the long-lived mutant than the normal worm, that's for sure.

Oh, and she told me that men want only one thing. And on that note, I must give praise and thanks to the powers that be. I don't want much else from them either.

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.