Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.
I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently. . . . There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.
When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.
What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?
That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath.