Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking their cue from an unfortunate remark in Genesis, Catholic moralists have regarded animals as mere things which men do right to regard for their own ends. . . .

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.

Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.