Always winter but never Christmas.

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.

You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give.

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.