"Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence."

"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible."

"Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight."

"Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity."

"That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove."

"Fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: I will try once more tomorrow. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them."

"Fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: I will try once more tomorrow. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."