The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.

Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique....If there had been someone like her in the world, there would have been no need for her to be born." --Martin Buber as quoted in Narrative Means for Sober Ends, by Jon Diamond, p.78

We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.

To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.