Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head

To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens and co-Christians that you have no value, no history, have never done anything that is worthy of human respect destroys you because in the beginning you believe it.

Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about people sitting on rocks, naked, in all kinds of weather, but mostly bad, naturally, and walking barefoot through hot coals and arriving at wisdom. I used to say that it sounded to me as though they were getting away from wisdom as fast as they could. I think he sort of looked down on me for that.

Man cannot live by profit alone.

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.