Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.

One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.

When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago.

There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.

Our whole life is a meditation of our last decision - the only decision that matters.

The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order to remind us that virtuous actions are not only possible and valuable, but that they can become easier and more delightful and more fruitful than the acts of vice which oppose and frustrate them.

We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to provoke the violent, and in this way bring about the conflict for which we, too, like other men, are hungering in secret, and with suppressed barbarity.