We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.

I had always been impressed by the fact that there are surprisingly many individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and yet are not stupid, and an equal number who obviously do use their minds but in an amazingly stupid way.

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

The brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands.