Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better

The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.

Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.

The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.