Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.

...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is a gain to win an inner intensity of heart through a deeper and deeper inner sorrowing over guilt.

What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act.

Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.