the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.

one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.

We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.