Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.

A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.

Begin with the possible: begin with one step. There is always a limit you cannot do more than you can do. If you try to do too much you will do nothing

Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem.

Everything we do consciously remains for us.

There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.

I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.