Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.

Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning it was not a Word, but a chirrup.

Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.

I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.