It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

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.

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.