Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.

God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.

The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

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

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

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.

Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.