Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.

Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if you are interested only in writing you will never be a writer, because you will have nothing to write about...)

I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change #‎ God - it changes me.

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.