It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.

To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.