Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.

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

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.