Much learning does not teach understanding. Fragments

If your ultimate and highest goal is to have life made easy and sociable, then never become involved with Christianity, shun it, because it wants the very opposite; it wants to make your life difficult and to do this by making you alone before God. No earnest person, therefore, wearies of tracking down the illusions, because insofar as he is a thinking person he fears most to be in error, however cozy the arrangement is, however good the company—and as a Christian he fears most to be lost without knowing it—however flattering, however splendid the surroundings and the company are. Works of Love

Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do. The Post Office Girl 

We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways. Ulysses