Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.

I would prefer to battle the 'I'm special' feeling not by the thought, 'I'm no more special than anyone else,' by by the feeling, 'Everyone is as special as me.'

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

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

You people have no imagination!

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

Prayer does not change God; it changes me.