But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.

Love is our true destiny.

A man searching for enlightenment is like a man sitting on an Ass in search of an Ass

Contradictions have always existed in the soul of [individuals]. But it is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become a constant and insoluble problem. We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them and see them in the light of exterior and objective values which make them trivial by comparison.

They were in the world and not of it--not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists. The integrity of an artist lifts a man above the level of the world without delivering him from it.

Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.