Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience

A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.

What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be alive? What we call psychosis is sometimes simply realism. But human beings can't live on realism alone.

He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.

Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings