The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.

Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.

When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.

Creation is not a hurdle on the road to God, it is the road itself.

I have learned a new form of service from the wars of Frederick, king of Prussia. It is not necessary to approach the enemy in order to attack him. In fleeing from him, it is possible to circumvent him as he advances and fall on him from the rear and force him to surrender. What is needed is not to strike straight at evil but to withdraw to the sources of divine power, and from there to circle around evil, bend it and transform it into its opposite.

There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit and passion. But rarest of all is a passionable spirit.

One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.