At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]

We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off.

If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.