It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.

Loving becomes, and the ability to love, becomes one of the most important things in life.

We are concerned with things. We are concerned with success. We are concerned with money. We are concerned with instrumentalities.

We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.

Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything, and hence that it is a sign of ignorance to be surprised or puzzled by anything.

The most important things we talk about on Sundays are things to which we pay very little attention.

Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer.