Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.

It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

The future stands in need of you in order to be born.

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.

It pains me to speak of God in the third person.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.