Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.

Truth and ceremony are two things.

It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.

The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.

A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?