Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.

The purpose of life is to remember.

Cluster together like stars!

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

Think only what is right there, what is right under your nose to do. It's such a simple thing - that's why people can't do it.

My world of human beings had perished. I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and the streets spoke to me in that sad, bitter language compounded of human misery, yearning, regret, failure, wasted effort