The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is... lack of faith.

The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.

Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm which is not easily disturbed, or else a brokenness that can hardly be healed. Conversely, it is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed in order to produce valuable and lasting results.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.