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

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron!

I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.

Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.

Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.