Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see.

The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human - these are not thrown open to a few of the privileged nor to one chosen people to the exclusion of all others. They will open only to an advance of all together, in a direction in which all together can join and find completion in a spiritual renovation of the earth.

Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of God. You who batter us and then dress our wounds, you who resist us and yield to us, you who wreck and build, you who shackle and liberate, the sap of our souls, the hand of God, the flesh of Christ: it is you, matter, that I bless.

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

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

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.