“We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us.”

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

“God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs.”

“Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.”

“There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.”

“We must decide: is life something that is happening to us or something that is happening through us? If we are part of the problem, we can also be part of the solution.”

“The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.”

“Yes, he is intelligent. But we must be more intelligent. We must be so intelligent that he does not suspect us of being intelligent at all.”

“On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.”