“Chocolate symbolizes, as does no other food, luxury, comfort, sensuality, gratification, and love.”

“Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.”

“Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is Himself the way”

“Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.”

“Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.”

“On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous or miserable, as one to whom Jesus Christ is Brother and God is Father; and we have to deal with him on this assumption. If the other person knows that already, then we have to strengthen him in the knowledge. If he does no know it yet or no longer knows it, our business is to transmit this knowledge to him.”

“Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests”