Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

It is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us. That is why you are faithful to it, even while you stand waiting, so long as you are prepared, and act the moment you are confronted by its demands.

The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.

The longest journey is the journey inward.

You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame in the half-light of an early dawn.