To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street.

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.

Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

All racists are irresponsible.