Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.

Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.

Always pull back-and see how silly we must look to God.

I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.

Something great is about to happen to me: I'm about to love somebody very much.

...notice how he will come to manhood with his own particular soul bespeaking itself through the windows which are his eyes, and such lovely eyes surely do prophesy and indicate the loveliest of souls.

The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.