If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it.

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. My soul knows that I am part of the human race, my soul is an organic part of the great human race, as my spirit is part of my nation. In my own very self, I am part of my family.

To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.