Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.