Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural.

Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.

Consciousness is simply the brain’s neural response to its surrounding environmental stimuli. Hence when the neural circuits malfunction, Consciousness tends to malfunction as well.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

An actual artist, living right under her nose.

Faith consists not in ignorance but in knowledge and that not only of God but also of the divine will.

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

I have sensitive skin, so I don't use regular razors. The Yankees make us stay cleanly shaven!

Never insult anyone by accident.

Like all bullies, they’re cowards underneath the swagger