And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril or labour it might cost; but because I could see nothing in the whole world for me to do once it was accomplished. AS long as this act lay before me, there was, as it were, some barrier between me and the dead desert which the rest of my life must be.

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.

Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?

And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.