Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

• Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
• Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
• Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
• The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
• It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
• Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
• There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
• Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
• Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
• Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.