If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.