Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.