I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it

We must be holy without holiness. We must be whole, complete. That's being holy. Any other kind of holiness is false, a snare, and a delusion.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books

At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds.