The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.

The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.

As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction