Give expression to the noble desires that lie in you heart.

Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

There is always one fact more in every man's case about which we know nothing.

Now in matters of action the reason directs all things in view of the end:

To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health.

It is no use trying to sum people up.

Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.

I dig out beautiful caves behind my characters; I think that gives exactly what I want; humanity, humor, depth. The idea is that the caves shall connect, & each comes to daylight at the present moment.

We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

And thus she made it impossible for me to roll out my sonorous phrases about 'elemental feelings,' the 'common stuff of humanity,' 'depths of the human heart,' and all those other phrases which support us in our belief that, however clever we may be on top, we are very serious, very profound and very humane underneath.