The continuing, direct operation of the Holy Ghost on those who are called to be God's children implies, in fact, a broadening process of incarnation. Christ, the son begotten by God, is the first-born who is succeeded by an ever-increasing number of younger brothers and sisters. There are, however, neither begotten by the Holy Ghost nor born of a virgin. . . . Their lowly origin (possibly from the mammals) does not prevent them from entering into a close kinship with God as their father and Christ as their brother.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

Called or not, God is always there.

Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life

We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.