This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself.

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.

A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

Solitude is the place of purification.

Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

The spiritual process does not look outward to find beauty, but it is a process of looking inwards to see the inner beauty.

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

Miracles sometimes occur but one has to work terribly hard for them.

Strictly has just given me a real zest for life. Life is so short. We should all grasp it.

The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.

I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design.

There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.

If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless.