What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.