There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.

It is not the nature of the task, but its consecration, that is the vital thing.

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered one of the two, books or men. I often hear men prizing their solitude but that is only because there are still men somewhere on earth even though in the far distance. I knew nothing of books when I came forth from the womb of my mother, and I shall die without books, with another human hand in my own. I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human being looking at me.

Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers.

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

Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.