Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

Love is not blind that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

The man who kills a man kills a man.The man who kills himself kills all men.As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting themselves?

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.

How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing that ever brought us out of them.

And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights.

You lose the speed before the stamina.

If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

As the means, so the end.

The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.

Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers

The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger.

Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.