For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.

While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.

I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us.

Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.