I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine.

We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.

It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.