Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will.