It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

Sleep is still most perfect ... when it is shared with a beloved.

No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.

I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. There is not any of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surfaces of the water.

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

Freedom is a very great reality. But it means, above all things, freedom from lies.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.