Self-respect is the root of discipline

People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age.... Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one's faith.

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.