What holds attention determines action.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.