Science...is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself— that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved— what then?

In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.

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

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.