1. “True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.”
2. “Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.”
3. “The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one one thing we never give enough is love.”
4. “The prisoner is not one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.”
5. “Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”
6. “Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.”
7. “A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
8. “When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.”
9. “The moment you give close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.”
10. “Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”
11. “The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.”
12. “If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.”
13. “If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.”
14. “The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
15. “Man has demonstrated hat he is master of everything except his own nature.”
