The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge.

The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.

A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.

Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

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