Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.

Attentiveness is the heart of prayer.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.