So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Empty your life from the baggage of the past so you may enjoy the beauty of the present.

Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good true and serious.

What we have in Christ Jesus-Redemption through His blood is the beginning and foundation of everything.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

Any citizen who's offended ... can leave the service.

You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.

I'm definitely the worker. My brother is the jokester.

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.