He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320

Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.

I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with your belief, and you must strive to understand better that which you call God.