1. “The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.”
2. “A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.”
3. “Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.”
4. “The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.”
5. “If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.”
6. “To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.”
7. “Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.”
8. “You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.”
9. “Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”
10. “Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.”
11. “The soul of artist cannot remain hidden.”
12. “Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.”
13. “People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.”
14. “In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.”
15. “The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.”
