Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.

The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation of logical verbalizing.

You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.

Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.

People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better.

Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our happiness depends cannot be found in any other way.

Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life.