The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.

There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.

If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.