It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.

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.