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.

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.

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.

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.

Wealth is as a result of the value of time

If you want a new life you need to hurry up and close the door on your old life.

It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.

Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity

You laugh, but you haven't seen me in a tux. Or maybe you don't like broad-shouldered guys with muscular chest and washboard abs?

I personally spend the majority of my time by far on outreach and education and fundraising and administration.

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

Well, I don't have much job security.