Being pretty successful, I can, of course, afford some luxuries. But I realize again and again how we have to disillusion ourselves of the idea that these things are going to give us real satisfaction.

There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.

The abyss beyond our beliefs is something we have to pass through in order to see the world anew, to see it in terms not dictated so much by our culture, our parents, or our religious convictions.

To really love a person completely is to come to a point where your stories are intertwined.

Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men.

I fall into all kinds of inauthenticity when I conspire to forget my mortality.

The more we chase away the false mysteries - those things we think we know about ourselves and others - the more mysterious our existence becomes.