Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

I really do believe in the New Jerusalem. I really do believe that we can all become better than we are. I know we can. But the price is enormous and people are not yet willing to pay it.

I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

All racists are irresponsible.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.