Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.

He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.

I want to suffer so that I may love.

They were like two enemies in love with one another.

There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.