The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order to remind us that virtuous actions are not only possible and valuable, but that they can become easier and more delightful and more fruitful than the acts of vice which oppose and frustrate them.

O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.

Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new.

The only right way: to love and serve the man of the modern world, but not simply to succumb, with him, to all his illusions about the world.

Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.

My spiritual goal is to one day walk into God and disappear.

The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around.