Trust in the person's promise who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

The gods sustain and guide all their works.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.