When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and psychic strands of his being to all that surrounds him. . . . If we look far enough back in the depths of time, the disordered anthill of living beings suddenly, for an informed observer, arranges itself in long files that make their way by various paths towards greater consciousness.

The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.

And this is the best success I can dream for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.