We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.