Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance.

The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.

A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

There is no reason to make the search for friendship sound like an animal instinct. Friendship does not always come as a result of a search; it can come when we least look for it, just as it denies itself when we pursue it too earnestly and with pathetic eagerness.

The forces, movements, and energies that today we call religious, spiritual, or faith-based have related through the ages in diverse ways to the spheres of life that today we call economic and that we see embodied in business and commerce.

If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.

All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity