And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins

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

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.

Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.

If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

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