When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

A soul can create only when alone.

We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.

Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.