At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.

Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease.

It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.

I see too deep and too much.

Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. It is called the truth.

whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.

The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr — smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living.

Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.

Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.

Many Christians never let the Bible get in the way of their believing, but depend on their logic, tradition, or experience to formulate beliefs.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.

I don't turn to anyone for advice. I do what I want.

She stopped at the desk and held up a can for his view. "This looks like an ordinary hairspray can, right?" "Of course." he said though he had no idea what hairspray was.

Make it nice where you are, and put the density on top.

You will find that God is always by the side of the fearless.

There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn't want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world.

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.