Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.

What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence--that sort of innocence. With the result that we're now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.

...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.