You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

If you thirst you may drink.

I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.