You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.

I came alive when I started loving you.

It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that.

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.