From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse.

'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the edges. Blown by the wind. When I was a little boy, I used to shut my eyes in winter and imagine a green leaf, with veins on it, and the sun shining ...' 'What's this - an allegory?' "No; why? Not an allegory - a leaf, just a leaf. A leaf is good. Everything's good.'

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus.

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.