The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

Thinking of only the worse of yourself will eventually destroy you

To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings—all in the same relationship.

we were justlooking for what couldinstead of what waswhat should beinstead of how it was

All great art is born of the metropolis.

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.

A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on the way out.

I have found that fate is as liquid and elusive a word as love. Plato thought they were the same ... Novalis wrote that fate and soul are two names for the same principle.

Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate.