Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.