“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”

“Naming, even in ridicule, gives what is named substance.”

“People living deeply have no fear of death.”

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”

“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”

“The things that make me different are the things that make me.”

“They lived and laughed and loved and left.”

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

[ in conversation ] Discretion is more important than eloquence.

['God' is] but the expression for man's highest conception of goodness, wisdom, and power; that in order to generate a more vivid conception of so great and glorious a thought, man has personified it and called it by a name... people should no more cease to love God on ceasing to believe in His objective personality than they cease to love justice on discovering that she was not really personal; they will never truly know Him until they see Him thus.

[Bringing It All Back Home was] the most influential album of its era. Almost everything to come in contemporary popular song can be found therein.

[A man] can admire, and he can like, and he can fondle and be fondled. He can admire and approve, and perhaps worship. He can know of a woman that she is part of himself, the most sacred part, and therefore will protect her from the very winds. But all that will not make love. It does not come to a man that to be separated from a woman is to be dislocated from his very self. A man has but one center, and that is himself. A woman has two. Though the second may never be seen by her, may live in the arms of another, may do all for that other that man can do for woman, -- still, still, though he be half the globe asunder from her, still he is to her the half of her existence. If she really love, there is, I fancy no end of it.

[a man] whose soul was more pure than any snow.

[Abaris] has the makings and markings of a shaman—of one of those strange, uncontrollable healers and mystics found across the world but especially familiar in the areas around Siberia and Central Asia.

[Al-Ghazzali's autobiography is important for] the purely literary student who would like to become acquainted with the inwardness of religions other than the Christian

[Although Thucydides was the] greatest historian, perhaps, who ever lived, [he represents] an interpretation, a point of view; and in this we need not agree with him.

[anti-Semitism is] the hatred of the lazy, ignorant fat-headed Gentile for the pertinacious Jew who, schooled by adversity to use his brains to the utmost, outdoes him in business.

[belief in] the immortality of the soul... was immoral... it would distract men's minds from the perfecting of this world's economy, and was an impatient cutting of the Gordian knot of life's problems

[citizens] considered poverty among their fellow citizens as their own disgrace and measured their well-being not by being able to outdo each other, but by the absence of want among the whole people