The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
There is a "sanctity" involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
