What’s more, this is one of the significant inquiries of our lives: how we keep limits, what authorization we need to cross limits, and how we do as such.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

If you do not pray except when you feel like praying, you will not pray much, nor pray when you most need it.

The object of defense is preservation; and since it is easier to hold ground than to take it, defense is easier than attack. But defense has a passive purpose: preservation; and attack a positive one: conquest…. If defense is the stronger form of war, yet has a negative object, it follows that it should be used only so long as weakness compels, and be abandoned as soon as we are strong enough to pursue a positive object.

Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.