A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

It was a morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with their fragrance. The temperature was like a caress. I remember - I need not recall - that I climbed up a tree stump and felt suddenly immersed in Itness. I did not call it by that name. I had no need for words. It and I were one.

We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often".

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.