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

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.

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.

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.

It is only normal that people count losses with their minds, and ignore to count blessings with the graciousness of their hearts.

Whenever you feel like criticzing any one, " he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven´t had the advantages that you've had.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

God is truth and is to be worshiped, not because it's convenient, makes us feel good, or is therapeutic.

It's hard to be always the same person.

I'm saying, that just kept, messing it up for everybody! And then everybody on your team doesn't have that drive that you have.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the culture.