Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.

One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.