Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.

Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.

Take care of the elderly people.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.

In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army acting as judge, jury and executioner.

[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

To be free from false identity and the hypnosis of conditioning is the biggest smile and joy you are going to feel in your life.

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

In every difficult situation there is a door to opportunity for which optimism is the only key.