I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything.

Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it.

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.