Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.

He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul.

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

... only love begets love.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.