The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.

... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.

The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

Happiness, ... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.

Despite tribulation, distress, famine, peril, and sword, God had allowed them all to emerge as conquerors.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

Distortion is part of desire. We always change the things we want.

We take unholy risks to prove we are what we cannot be. For instance, I am not even crazy.

Don't even try to talk to me when I'm watching the moon. That's my moon, baby.

Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.

A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul.

Nothing compares with the satisfaction of pleasing the heart of our heavenly Father.

Shall I project a world?