What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.

I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.

We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.

Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

... the unarmed power of naked truth.