The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.

About what mainly constituted what you ask, it was something other. It was just a certain inclination to meet people. And as far as possible, to change something in the other, but also to let me be changed by him. At any event, I had no resistance, I put no resistance to it. I already began as a young man. I felt I have not the right to want to change another if I am not open to be changed by him as far as it is legitimate.

When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man.

We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.

The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.

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 face looking at me.

In the story of the Creation we read: ". . . And behold, it was very good." But, in the passage where Moses reproves Israel, the verse says: "See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil." Where did the evil come from? Evil too is good. It is the lowest rung of perfect goodness. If you do good deeds, even evil will become good; but if you sin, evil will really become evil.