“Persons with any weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits.”

“Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.”

“Perhaps he had been waiting all along for someone to knock him down and allow him to drop the weight he’d so faithfully carried.”

“I'm just a guy on a planet, orbiting a sun, surrounded by a vast space extending in every direction.”

“All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general mind which they interpret and indeed almost discover, so that we come to read them rather for that than for any story or character or scene of seperate excellence.”

“Religions are all living faiths and their essence does not consist in their externals such as rituals, methods of prayer, ceremonies, etc. It rather consist in the inner beliefs and convictions which they carry along with them and which give their followers a distinctive character and way of life.”