No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.

Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.

If there is equality it is in His love, not in us.

Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.