Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.

The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.

Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of professional or pious duty, can often manage to evade a radically involved dialogue with the book they are questioning.

... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.

Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.

We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.