The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.

We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us