The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great-quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of the Father. It is time that man shall cease, first to live in the flesh, with joy, and then, unsatisfied, to renounce and to mortify the flesh.

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

You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?

When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill.

No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me.

That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me.