Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?

You die and die and then you are beyond death.

Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.