It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.

Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.

If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic.

What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.