When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth

Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

Some truths are seen better through tears.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.

The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.

Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of "systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, cyst-susceptible sister, " which is easier done than said.

We fly with our dreams, we fall with our hesitations!

Once you achieve self intimacy & self-connection, success, peace & wealth is not far from you.

Rest fixed most things. Sleep was my sweet reward. I treated bedtime as both incentive and sacrament.

I wouldn't dignify it with the name immoral.

I could use a little monotony in my life. Spontaneity is exhausting.

The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer.

Why change the world? Change worlds!

While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .

... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.