“What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all?”

“It is not that accepting and rejecting are great actions within themselves. But the right to accept or reject, now that is everything.”

“Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation?”

“I pray that if a god watches over us, it will have the decency to avoid the tasteless maneuver of voyeuristic trespass.”

“A philosopher's house is always more tuneful than a disciplinarian's.”

“The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.”

“There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer: no disease that love will not heal: no door that enough love will not open...It makes no difference how deep set the trouble: how hopeless the outlook: how muddled the tangle: how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world...”