The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

There seems no plan because it's all plan. There seems no center because it's all center.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

The problem with trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

I don’t pray to change God. I pray to change me.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one."

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don ’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don ’t understand.

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.