There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

The motive power of democracy is love

Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.

Fear of falling resist you from rising

Maybe it shouldn’t have come as such a surprise, but like a tooth extraction, there was a moment of intense pain and then a numbing sense of loss. I was officially unmarried.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.

They that trust in the Lord shall never be confounded!

I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.

My beats are pretty s - - y, though. I don't know how they work.

In sum, the purpose is to contest the popular view, because popular opinions are so frequently found to be untimely, misled (by propaganda), or plainly wrong.

I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write big, big, long books.

How can women be in the image of God if God cannot be imaged in female form?

The role of silence is to create the space where we encounter the silent Presence.