And lonely as it is that loneliness Will be more lonely ere it will be less-- A blanker whiteness of benighted snow With no expression, nothing to express. They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars--on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of the good is to hope. To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of evil is to fear. By the decision to choose hope one decides infinitely more than it seems, because it is an eternal decision

The spirit of dialectical fearlessness is not so easily acquired; and the sense of isolation which remains despite the conviction of right, the sadness of the parting from admired and trustworthy [or trusted?] authorities, is the line of demarcation which marks the threshold of its acquirement.

You don't need luck. Everything you need is right inside you.

Oh, I wonder if I shall ever be able to do anything worth while in the way of writing.

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within.

If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before."

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.