"If you seek yourself,...you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means."
"In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us."
"I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one."
"Friendship needs no words. It is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness."
"A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles one to assume responsibility."
"Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was."
"It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character."
"God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason."
"The longest journey of any person is the journey inward."
"It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil."
"Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away."
"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."
"We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours."
"You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means."
"It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses."
"Freedom from fear could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."
"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road."
"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions."
"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road."
"Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away."
"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean."
"If you're driving down the highway in the middle of the night and you see a sign that says Bridge Out, pray for some intellectual understanding of that message, or you're going to have an experience you'll never forget!"
"You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does."
"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."
"Freedom from fear could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."