To make what fate intends for me my own intention

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.