Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life have a conformity to each other which neither has with the mechanistic life...A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God...[We should] struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God.

We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.