How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.

Life is good, after all...and that's what stays with me, even now, even when I'm about to be packed off to Poland.

The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream...and life continues.

That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.