Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it. . . for the supreme act of judgment and selection.
You can do this" I murmured. "You are my brother. I love you. All the embarrassing bits, all the annoying bits, which I imagine is most of you--a thousand Zias might run away from you if they knew the truth. But I won't. I'll still be here.
Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those of human resistance.
When you have nothing left but God, you become aware that God is enough.
If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.