The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.

Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.

[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives.

It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind.

Living someone else's vision, is proclaiming death to your imparted destiny, and proclaiming life to the destiny of the visionaries pursuing their visions.

Reading Plato should be easy

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us

Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat

contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love.

The key to happiness is the decision to be happy

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.

Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.

With an endless assortment of children and animals living under one roof, there was always some absurd crisis that gave comic relief to my problems.

If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.