Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.

When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.

To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls.

Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.

Some of us need to discover that we will not begin to live more fully until we have the courage to do and see and taste and experience much less than usual... And for a man who has let himself be drawn completely out of himself by his activity, nothing is more difficult than to sit still and rest, doing nothing at all. The very act of resting is the hardest and most courageous act he can perform.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

A daydream is an evasion.