You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?

We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all."