To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.

Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

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.

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.