"It is a essential truth that every season of life has its own unique blossom, if only we take care to notice."

"Clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"Every second given to regret is a precious second stolen from creation. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"Art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high."

"Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual."

"Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities."

"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."