Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet

Faith is stronger than so-called reality.

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life.

You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies nine months! It is obvious how many of them are fish or sheep, worms or angels, how many are ants, how many are bees!