To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over... What you first gain from them is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions, or distinctions, or points of view. But while these special ideas are being added, the rest of your knowledge stands still, and only gradually will you 'line up' your previous opinions with the novelties I am trying to instil, and modify to some slight degree their mass.

For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.

Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.

Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.