Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.

What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.