In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.

This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.

Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain.

Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.

Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.