I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.

We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.