“Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.”

“Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored....”

“Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.”

“The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair.”

“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”

“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.”

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”