A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.

Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for.

We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.

First you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social coordination.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.