The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative ardor of the collective soul.

The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.

Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.

Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself above those symbols to the pure majesty of reality, and I will offer to you, I, your priest, upon the altar of the entire earth, the labor and the suffering of the world.

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.