Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy does not reserve a plot for weeds

The 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one.

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis--only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept them as the reality before which we must justify our existence. For this is the truth we must reach to live, that everything is and we just in it.

Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just.