Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things.

. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.