The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments; it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing.

As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.

Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.