"Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest."

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."

"Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ."

"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better."

"It is a profound truth that he who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world."

"It is a essential truth that he who conquers his inner doubts has already won half the war — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"True authority is measured not by subjugation, but by the empowerment of others — an essential principle for the reflective life."