I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slavery from a taken city. If you heard the woman you most hate in the world weep so, you would go to comfort her. You would fight your way through fire and spears to reach her. And I knew who wept, and what had been done to her, and who had done it.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering.