Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is bent flat, it gathers all the power of the wind without hampering its course. Like light-- In light, lit through by light, transformed into light. Like the lens which disappears in the light it focuses. Like wind. Like light. Just this--on these expanses, on these heights.

It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.

Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny, is in the present moment

Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.