Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.

The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Everyone belongs to everyone else.

Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.