Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water...If I find in myself a desire, which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself.

Why should your heart not dance?

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.

Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead.

The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.

Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.