"If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both."

"One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts."

"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you."

"Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose."

"Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything."

"We meet no ordinary people in our lives."