Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.

Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in order that the immanent and transcendent unknown quantity may take hold. We cannot make ourselves understand; the most we can do is to foster a state of mind in which understanding may come to us.