“A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.”

“As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.”

“He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.”

“Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.”

“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”

“Man has the lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end up destroying the earth.”

“Das Glück ist das einzige, das sich verdoppelt, wenn man es teilt.”