Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.

What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation.

We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge-the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.

You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.

You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of twenty-four hours. Let him feel as a grievous tax that portion of this property which he has to make over to him employers, and as a generous donation that further portion which h allows to religious duties. But what he must never be permitted to doubt is that the total from which these deductions have been made was, in some mysterious sense, his own personal birthright.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

Human intellect is incurably abstract.