Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.

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.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.

People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.