Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.

Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

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.

Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be