What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You.

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.

Many things can be released into our lives in the spirit realm through a ministry

The only faithful tradition is change.

Every danger loses some of its terror once its causes are understood.

My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke the idea of a Supreme Being in one of its numerous manifestations.

We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.

Is not poetry the food of love?

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.