The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.

Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

Fear is never a good counselor and victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.

God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness.

Bread for me is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

It is noteworthy that at a time when every religious sanction of authority has vanished, we live in a very authoritarian epoch.

Don’t ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out

True love is so hard to find, and they say that once you found it you lost your mind.

A moment's fruition of a true felicity is enough and eternity not too much.

A number of U.S. colleges are going to start having dorms for alcoholics. I believe those are called dorms.

So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.

never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty.

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.

Dollars have never been known to produced character, and character will never be produced by money.

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.