Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct if you listen to it will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
If you look for truth you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin and in the end despair.
Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world but as animals they inhabit time.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else.
Miracles do not in fact break the laws of nature.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
There is hidden or flaunted a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
Literature adds to reality it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.
