As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.

Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.

The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it.

It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.