Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.

Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.