Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic.

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.