Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.

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.

More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas.

To love is to approach each other center to center.

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.

From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.

Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.