I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.

Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.

...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.

The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other...

The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all till we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?