There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.

When you have duly arrayed your "facts" in logical order, lo, it is like an oil-lamp that you have made, filled and trimmed, but which sheds no light unless first you light it.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.

The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.

Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.

It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.

A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.