There is in this world no such force as the force of a man determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

It is the mind that makes the body.

The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.

If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.

I don't care what they say with their mouths-everybody knows that something is eternal. And it ain't houses and it ain't names, and it ain't earth, and it ain't even the stars-everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings ... There's something way down deep that's eternal about every human being.