The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out who he is at all.

Dare to lose your life and you will find it.

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full. Moreover, I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution. Probably I should not consciously and deliberately forsake my particular calling to do the good which society demands of me, to save the universe from annihilation; and I believe that a like but infinitely greater steadfastness elsewhere is all that now preserves it.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

You have to be able to face losing some things you might want in order to be free to do the right thing.

We are imprisoned in our small selves, thinking only of the comfortable conditions for this small self, while we destroy our large self.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

We often have to lose what we thought we wanted to find what God wants for us

For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

What every man looks for in life is his own salvation and the salvation of the men he lives with. By salvation I mean first of all the full discovery of who he himself really is.

What a strange thing! In filling myself I had emptied myself

We become ourselves by dying to ourselves. We gain only what we give up, and if we give up everything we can everything. We cannot find ourselves within ourselves, but only in others, yet at the same time, before we can go out to others we must find ourselves.