Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

Around this world will I be enough?From the liquor stores, to the train stop floors, your filthy room, your drama bluesI am nothing if I'm not with you.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.

Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.

Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.

Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.

The will-to-live becomes the will-to-power.

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.