Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.

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

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.