The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

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.

The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.