“I tried your best and it didn’t work, so now I’m going to try my best and I’m sure that I’ll succeed!”

“You had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.”

“We believe because it gives us faith. It gives us the willingness to go through our day, to keep the existentialist threat of meaninglessness away. We believe because we crave to be seen, to be known, to be understood. We believe because that is the only thing we can do. If there is no one to judge us – to tell us that we are good, and that if we are bad, we can be redeemed – why bother living at all? Why bother being good at all? If there is no one to look after us, and we are truly alone in this universe, what purpose do we have? We have nothing but the present moment, and only temporariness.”

“Without faith, there is no force of will.”

“You have a God. You have a mind. You have a will. And somewhere you have a passion. And if you have enough faith to believe in the first and exercise the rest, you can achieve the impossible.”

“Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.”

“There is a weak person because he is weak … but there is a strong person who was once weak!”

“Just take my hand, lead, dance with me…and I will simply follow the blueness of the water, the white waves rolling free…where the earth beneath my feet and stars make my heart whole again…in long and priceless moments of shared solitude…”

“The sun will rise again. The only uncertainty is whether or not we will rise to greet it.Alan Christensen’s diary”

“Your knowledge of failure is the way for the new phase of it!”

“Never underestimate the will of a creature who begins to die at birth.”

“Justice will prevail!”

“As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.”

“Times change, as do our wills, What we are – is ever changing; All the world is made of change, And forever attaining new qualities.”

“But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man’s mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.”